This is where I claim ignorance — I’m not familiar enough with the ins and outs of brokerages to know whether what he writes makes sense, or is, um, something else. But I know he’s at least worth listening to.

As I’ve written before, not long ago, that the agent-centric (A-C) model is failing everywhere it’s been tried. It’s ability to fail at pretty much every level is becoming legendary, regardless of the Titantic-like practicianers now lookin’ to technology to save them.